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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 1153971, member: 28299&quot;]Fifty years ago today Man First went into space.&nbsp; The First Cosmonaut was Yuri Gagarin.&nbsp; It seems likely that in the long scale of human history this will be considered a seminal event.&nbsp; As an aside 20 years later, 4/12/81, e.g. 30 years ago today, was the First Space Shuttle flight.&nbsp; In celebration of this event post a coin from 1961 (or 1981), or a numismatic item that has a picture of a celestial body or a spacecraft.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Soviet era pennant.&nbsp; The middle signature is Gagarin&#039;s (the top signature is Tereshkova&#039;s, the First woman in space).</p><p><img src="http://i106.****************/albums/m246/SkyMan58/SpaceRelated/SovietBanner.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a picture of the First shuttle liftoff.</p><p><img src="http://i106.****************/albums/m246/SkyMan58/SpaceRelated/STS1Liftoff.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>An STS-1 flown Flag and patch (ex: Deke Slayton).</p><p><img src="http://i106.****************/albums/m246/SkyMan58/SpaceRelated/41108_529.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>... and finally a couple Franklins from 1961.</p><p><img src="http://i106.****************/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Frankies/61ms65-1Sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i106.****************/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Frankies/61ms65-2Sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i106.****************/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Frankies/1961DFrankObv_005.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i106.****************/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Frankies/1961DFrankRev_005.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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